“Simple laws of supply and demand suggest that when there’s an abundance of something, the price of that thing falls,” says Jared Dillian at Bloomberg, before noting an apparent exception to the rule...

Wary of the cost of surging federal spending to combat the coronavirus crisis, senior Trump administration officials are looking at ways to reduce the additional debt created by any future stimulus,...

The Congressional Budget Office on Thursday updated its 10-year budget outlook, making only small changes to its previous forecast. The nonpartisan budget scorekeeper now projects: The federal budget...

Just how worried should we be about the rapidly rising national debt? Last week we told you about a budget watchdog group’s effort to raise the alarm over “debt denialism” that has taken hold in some...

The Treasury Department forecasts that the federal budget deficit will surpass $1 trillion this year, adding to a $22 trillion national debt. Policymakers have been relatively unperturbed by the debt...

The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center held a symposium Wednesday to discuss the new book titled “Fiscal Therapy: Curing America's Debt Addiction and Investing in the Future” by the Tax Policy Center’...